Two house arrests - eleven vehicles seized beforehand - direct seizure of the profits from the crime for approximately 860.000 euros - twenty-seven. Those under investigation and eight companies involved and subjected to investigation under law 231/2001
The investigation activity directed by the Rome Prosecutor's Office - District Anti-Mafia Directorate - and carried out by the Railway Police of the Rome Department and by the Forestry Carabinieri of the NIPAAF of the Carabinieri Group of Viterbo has for the moment culminated with the issuing of the Investigating Judge's Order containing numerous precautionary measures. The men of the Forestry Carabinieri and the Railway Police of the Lazio and Campania compartments carried out the device this morning which was able to interrupt the traffic of metal waste - lead and above all copper - which had been in place for some time between the province of Viterbo and the province of Caserta .
The activities organized for the illicit trafficking of waste originated at two plants in the Viterbo area, where large quantities of special and urban waste were systematically accepted and managed from which to obtain metal components of commercial value, which were illegally managed.
In particular, the waste was delivered by a plurality of subjects, in the absence of the required registration in the National Register of Environmental Managers and in the absence of the required environmental documentation; the waste was then managed in the Viterbo plants in non-compliance with the provisions of the authorizations and the relevant decree and without correctly compiling the registers. Many unwanted wastes were disposed of illegally in the Viterbo area through abandonment or burning on the ground. The system organized and managed by two subjects from Campania also involved the loading of valuable metals, especially copper, with specific methods into the articulated vehicles identified for transport in order to hide their contents and in the absence of environmental documentation or with it drawn up falsely. Subsequently, the metal waste sold to a company in the Caserta area, despite the absence of adequate recovery and/or treatment operations necessary for the cessation of the waste qualification provided for by the art. 184 ter of Legislative Decree 152/2006, were further destined and marketed at another nearby factory.
To ascertain the offences, under scrutiny by the Roman Judiciary, numerous and complex judicial police activities were implemented, carried out in great synergy between the two police forces and divided according to their respective specific professionalisms.
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